I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

Men often struggle with their attraction to other women. They don't quite understand why they have to be with the same woman forever.